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I do now! Bugger, waste of time. Thanks Winston, I'm going to bed!!!!

Adamj, don't worry too much about when to start a new line, it's not really the point of a deskcheck. Indeed you could just write any changed values directly under the previous value without even worrying about lining up values into rows. However in practice, not lining up values across the row...

Sam Davis SDD HSC Text Multi Choice Answers Here ya go... And the password is t281, but don't tell anyone, ssshhhhh!!!! (Note the lowercase t). If you want all the other answers then go buy the Teacher Resource Kit (www.pedc.com.au) Sam

Gabn: that's the 2004 Independent Paper, however Questions 22 and 23 have been replaced by the questions in the 2002 Independent Paper.

In opinion the logic is not so clear. Some example issues include: What is the value of Count once the loop FOR Count=1 TO 10 completes? Is it 10 or is it 11? I think in most programming languages it would be 10, but I may be wrong! And what should it be in psuedocode? Who knows! Hence...

To count back from 10 to 1 you'd write... FOR Count taking 10 TO 1 by steps of -1 DO .... ENDFOR Although this is OK, as it's in the Specifications, to my knowledge nobody really does this. I'm 99.999% confident that writing the following would be OK too... FOR Count = 10 TO 1 STEP...

For...Next loops are referred to in the SDD Prelim course, and in the SDD Course Specifications. The course specifications use FOR...ENDFOR but the syllabus says FOR...NEXT. I've covered them in my Prelim text and have said either syntax is OK. As a consequence it should be OK to use them...

A simple copy and paste, add a few comments and the job's done...

I'll do the AI bit... BEGIN AI_Bit Consider current state of board Think about it for a while Decide on best spot Place piece in best spot END AI_Bit Easy peasy!!! HTH Sam

There are numerous techniques for drawing ERDs and schemas. Peter Chens is one of the older techniques (maybe it was the original technique, I forget), however to my knowledge it is seldom used anymore (some older texts would refer to it). Much of my own work involves developing DB applications...

Yes three paths through the decision block within the loop of this particular algorithm. However this is because we know what the algorithm is (including its errors). In general each IF should generate two possible paths, so in your example their are two IFs meaning 2^2 or 4 paths. If there...

Well put it this way, I'm driving a Mazda, not a Ferrari! But then again we regularly eat Steak and rarely suasages, so I do OK! Currently I spend about half my time writing texts and the other half programming (oops, I mean Software Developing). My income is higher than a teacher but less...

Correct. Bits, with a lower case b, is only routinely used in relation to communication. And even then it is generally in regard to speed, as in 10Mbps. HTH Sam

The syllabus is strange in this particular area. Case Tools are only mentioned in the Testing and Evaluation topic under "Documentation of the test data and output produced". To my mind it's trivial to discuss CASE tools used to document something you've already done. You end up talking about...

Why was it a 2 hour exam? Have you not completed the option? Normally would be a 3 hour paper???

In regard to zoodboog's post: I think Raymes was talking about a random access file not a database connection. I'd tend to avoid the word database, it implies some proprietry file format rather than a simple random access file. Also, the loop condition Index<=Length(records) is incorrect (or...

Not all of them, I hope.... just your story writing. When is your SDD trial?

Raymes, looks good to me. Obviously filename and record would be replaced with more meaningful identifiers appropriate to the question. Furthermore they often use an end of file (EOF) marker or a sentinel (say, "ZZZ"), to mark the end of the file. So your loop and condition for a read would...

Ditto... We're all here to learn from each other.

I suppose the lesson from all that guff for students is to consider the number of marks awarded for a question. That should give you some indication of the depth required in your answer. For example, if your response is trivial and a one liner, yet the question is worth 4 marks, then you'd be...